Re: pg_dump of a big table

[Scott Mead <scott.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Sam Mason <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 06:57:43PM +0000, Nelson Correia wrote:
> Running pg_dump from another machine needs much space on the DB
> host? Or it just outputs the data as it goes?

pg_dump should use very little space on the server, it just streams it
out to where ever you tell it.  You could run pg_dump on another host,
or do something like:

 pg_dump mydb | gzip | ssh otherbox "cat > out.sql.gz"

   Yes, from the other machine, run:

  [user@notmyhost ]$ pg_dump -h myhost -U mydbuser mydb > out.sql

--Scott